PART 3 DEVELOPMENT CONTROL RULES AND

GENERAL BUILDING REQUIREMENTS

1 SCOPE
This Part deals with the development control rules and
general building requirements to ensure health and
safety of the public.
2 TERMINOLOGY
2.0 For the purpose of this part, the following
definitions shall apply:
2.1 Access — A clear approach to a plot or a building.
2.2 Accessory Use — Any use of the premises
subordinate to the principal use and customarily
incidental to the principal use.
2.3 Alteration — A change from one occupancy to
another, or a structural change, such as an addition to
the area or height, or the removal of part of a building,
or any change to the structure, such as the construction
of, cutting into or removal of any wall, partition,
column, beam, joist, floor or other support, or a change
to or closing of any required means of ingress or egress
or a change to the fixtures or equipment.
2.4 Approved — Approved by the Authority having
jurisdiction.
2.5 Authority Having Jurisdiction — The Authority
which has been created by a statute and which for the
purpose of administering the Code/Part may authorize
a committee or an official to act on its behalf;
hereinafter called the ‘Authority’.
2.6 Back-to-Back Cluster — Clusters when joined
back to back and/or on sides (see Fig. 1).
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FIG. 1 BACK-TO-BACKCLUSTER
2.7 Balcony — A horizontal projection, with a
handrail or balustrade or a parapet, to serve as passage
or sitting out place.
2.8 Basement or Cellar — The lower storey of a
building below or partly below ground level.
2.9 Building — Any structure for whatsoever purpose
and of whatsoever materials constructed and every part
thereof whether used as human habitation or not and
includes foundation, plinth, walls, floors, roofs,
chimneys, plumbing and building services, fixed
platforms, VERANDAH, balcony, cornice or projection,
part of a building or anything affixed thereto or any
wall enclosing or intended to enclose any land or space
and signs and outdoor display structures. Tents,
SHAMIANAHS, tarpaulin shelters, etc, erected for
temporary and ceremonial occasions with the permission
of the Authority shall not be considered as building.
2.10 Building, Height of — The vertical distance
measured in the case of flat roofs, from the average
level of the ground around and contiguous to the
building or as decided by the Authority to the terrace
of last livable floor of the building adjacent to the
external walls; and in the case of pitched roofs, up to
the point where the external surface of the outer wall
intersects the finished surface of the sloping root and
in the case of gables facing the road, the mid-point
between the eaves level and the ridge. Architectural
features serving no other function except that of
decoration shall be excluded for the purpose of
measuring heights.
2.11 Building Envelope — The horizontal spatial
limits up to which a building may be permitted to be
constructed on a plot.
2.12 Building Line — The lineup to which the plinth
of a building adjoining a street or an extension of a
street or on a future street may lawfully extend. It
includes the lines prescribed, if any, in any scheme.
The building line may change from time-to-time as
decided by the Authority.
2.13 Cabin — A non-residential enclosure constructed
of non-load bearing partition.
2.14 Canopy — A projection over any entrance.
2.15 Carpet Area — The covered area of the usable
rooms at any floor level (excluding the area of the wall).
2.16 CHtL4J.lA — A sloping or horizontal structural
overhang usually provided over openings on external
walls to provide protection from sun and rain.
2.17 Chimney — An upright shaft containing one or
more flues provided for the conveyance to the outer
air of any product of combustion resulting from the
operation of heat producing appliance or equipment
employing solid, liquid or gaseous fuel.
2.18 Chowk or Courtyard — A space permanently
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open to the sky, enclosed fully or partially by building
and may be at ground level or any other level within
or adjacent to a building.
2.19 Chowk, Inner — A chowk enclosed on all sides.
2.20 Chowk, Outer — A chowk one of whose sides
is not enclosed.
2.21 Closed Clusters — Clusters with only one
common entry into cluster open space (see Fig. 2).
2.22 Cluster — Plots or dwelling units or housing
grouped around an open space (see Fig. 3).
Ideally housing cluster should not be very large. In
ground and one storeyed structures not more than 20
houses should be grouped in a cluster. Clusters with
more dwelling units will create problems in identity,
encroachments and of maintenance.
2.23 Cluster Court Town House — A dwelling in a
cluster plot having 100 percent or nearly 100 percent
ground coverage with vertical expansion, generally
limited to one floor only and meant for self use.
2.24 Cluster Plot — Plot in a cluster.
2.25 Cooking Alcove — A cooking space having
direct access from the main room without any intercommunicating
door.
2.26 Cover&d Area — Ground area covered by the
building immediately above the plinth level. The area
covered by the following in the open spaces is excluded
from covered area (see Table 3):
a)
b)
c)
d)
Garden, rockery, well and well structures,
plant nursery, waterpool, swimming pool (if
uncovered), platform round a tree, tank,
fountain, bench, CFL4BUTfL4 with open top
and unenclosed on sides by walls and the like;
Drainage culvert, conduit, catch-pit, gully pit,
chamber, gutter and the like;
Compound wall, gate, unstoreyed porch and
portico, canopy, slide, swing, uncovered
staircase, ramps areas covered by CHHAJJA
and the like; and
Watchmen’s booth, pumphouse, garbage
shaft, electric cabin or sub-stations, and such
other utility structures meant for the services
of the building under consideration.
NOTE— For the purpose of this Part, covered area
equalsthe plot area minusthe areadue for open spaces.
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FIG. 2 CLOSEDCLUSTER
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SPACE INA CLUSTER
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FIG. 3 CLUSTER
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2.27 ‘Cul-de-sac’ Cluster
Plots/dwelling units when located along a
pedestrianised or vehicular ‘cul-de-sac’ road (see
Fig. 4).
FIG. 4 CUL-DE-SAC CLUSTER
2.28 Density — The residential density expressed in
terms of the number of dwelling units per hectare.
NOTE— Where such densities are expressed exclusive of
communityfacilities and provision of open spaces and major
roads (excluding incidental open spaces), these will be net
residentialdensities.Wherethesedensitiesare expressedtaking
into consideration the required open space provision and
communityfacilities and major roads, these would be gross
residential densities at neighborhood level, sector level or
town level, as the case may be. The provisionof open spaces
and community facilities will depend on the size of the
residential community.
Incidentalopen spaces are mainly open spaces required to be
left around and in betweentwo buildings to provide lighting
and ventilation.
2.29 Detached Building — A building detached on
all sides.
2.30 Development — ‘Development’ with grammatical
variations means the carrying out of building,
engineering, mining or other operations, in, or over,
or under land or water, on the making of any material
change, in any building or land, or in the use of any
building, land, and includes re-development and layout
and subdivision of any land and ‘to develop’ shall be
construed accordingly.
2.31 Drain — A conduit, channel or pipe for the
carriage of storm water, sewage, waste water or other
water borne wastes in a building drainage system.
2.32 Drainage — The removal of any liquid by a
system constructed for the purpose.
2.33 Dwelling Unit/Tenement — An independent
housing unit with separate facilities for living, cooking
and sanitary requirements.
2.34 Escalator — A power driven, inclined, continuous
stairway used for raising or lowering passengers.
2.35 Exit — A passage, channel or means of egress
from any building, storey or floor area to a street or
other open space of safety.
2,36 External Faces of Cluster — Building edges
facing the cluster open spaces.
2.37 Fire Separation — The distance in metres
measured from the external wall of the building
concerned to the external wall of any other building
on the site, or from other site, or from the opposite
side of a street or other public space for the purpose of
preventing the spread of fiie.
2.38 Floor — The lower surface in a storey on which
one normally walks in a building. The general term
‘floor’ unless specifically mentioned otherwise shall
not refer to a ‘mezzanine floor’.
2.39 Floor Area Ratio (FAR) — The quotient
obtained by dividing the total covered area (plinth area)
on all floors by the area of the plot:
FM= Total covered area of the floors
Plot area
2.40 Gallery — An intermediate floor or platform
projecting from a wall of an auditorium or a hall
providing extra floor area, additional seating
accommodation, etc. It shall also include the structures
provided for seating in stadia.
2.41 Garage, Private — A building or a portion
thereof designed and used for parking of private owned
motor driven or other vehicles.
2.42 Garage, Public — A building or portion thereof,
other than a private garage, designed or used for
repairing, servicing, hiring, selling or storing or parking
motor driven or other vehicles.
2.43 Group Housing — Housing for more than one
dwelling unit, where land is owned jointly (as in the
case of co-operative societies or the public agencies,
such as local authorities or housing boards, etc) and
the construction is underta$+n by one Agency.
2.44 Group Open Space — Open space within a
cluster.
Group open pace is neither public open space nor
private open space. Each dwelling unit around the
cluster open space have a share and right of use in it.
The responsibility for maintenance of the same is to
be collectively shared by all the dwelling units around.
2.45 Habitable Room — A room occupied or
designed for occupancy by one or more persons for
study, living, sleeping, eating, kitchen if it is used as a
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living room, but not including bathrooms, water-closet
compartments, laundries, serving and store pantries,
corridors, cellars, attics, and spaces that are not used
frequently or during extended periods.
2.46 Independent Cluster — Clusters surrounded
from all sides by vehicular access roads and/or
pedestrian paths (see Fig. 5).
FIG. 5 INDEPENDENTCLUSTER
2.47 Interlocking Cluster —Clusters when joined
at back andon sides with atleastone side of a cluster
common and having some dwelling units opening onto
or having access from the adjacent clusters.
Dwelling units in such clusters should have at least
two sides open to external open space. Houses in an
interlocking cluster can have access, ventilation and
light from the adjacent cluster and should also cater
for future growth (see Fig. 6).
2.48 Internal Faces of Cluster — Building edges
facing the adjacent cluster open space (as in case of
interlocking cluster) of the surrounding pedestrian
paths or vehicular access roads.
2.49 Ledge or TAND — A shelf-like projection,
supported in any manner whatsoever, except by means
of vertical supports within a room itself but not having
projection wider than 1 m.
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2.50 Lift — An appliance designed to transport
persons or materials between two or more levels in a
vertical or substantially vertical direction by means of
a guided car or platform. The word ‘elevator’ is also
synonymously used for ‘lift’.
2.51 Loft — A structure providing intermediate
storage space in between two floors with a maximum
height of 1.5 m, without having a permanent access.
2.52 Mezzanine Floor — An intermediate floor
between two floors of any storey forming an integral
part of floor below.
2.53 Occupancy or Use Group — The principal
occupancy for which a building or a part of a building
is used or intended to be used; for the purposes of
classification of a building according to occupancy;
an occupancy shall be deemed to include subsidiary
occupancies which are contingent upon it.
2.54 Occupancy, Mixed — The occupancy, where
more than one occupancy are present in different
portions of.the building.
2.55 Open Clusters — Cluster where cluster open
spaces are linked to forma continuous open space (see
Fig. 7).
2.56 Open Space — An area, forming an integral part
of the plot, left open to the sky.
NOTE — The open space shall be the minimum distance
measuredbetweenthe front, rear and side of the buildingand
the respectiveplot boundaries.
2.57 Open Space, Front — An open space across the
front of a plot between the building line and front
boundary of the plot.
2.58 Open Space, Rear — An open space across the
rear of a plot between the rear of the building and the
rear boundary of the plot.
2.59 Open Space, Side — An open space across the
side of the plot between the side of the building and
the side boundary of tb plot.